Lance Leipold Looks Ahead to K-State | Pay Heed 10/12

All right, let's get into Lance Leipold's comments on Monday afternoon when speaking about the loss to Utah, some additional reaction to that.

Looking ahead to K-State as well for a very important game for KU.

Kansas sits at 2-3 after the loss to Utah.

And, of course, they haven't beaten K-State in 17 attempts in a row.

So a very important game coming up this Saturday.

Before we get to the K-State stuff, though, wanted to get some additional reaction to what Lance Leipold had to say on Monday when looking back at the loss to Utah.

First and foremost, here's what he had to say, just generally assessing what went wrong for KU against the Utes and losing that game.

You know, again, mixed bag of things.

You know, slow start.

Nailed part of it.

I thought we played well, played hard, and then we didn't finish strong there in the fourth when we had opportunities and, you know, need to find a way to play, you know, complete four quarters against big football teams like that.

A major problem for KU in that game against Utah was the slow start.

Kansas got down 14-0 in the first quarter of that game.

They were in danger of going down 21-0 after Isaiah Marshall's early interception.

The defense kind of bailed them out a little bit at that point in the game.

But even still, that slow start certainly really hurt Kansas.

They were playing from behind the rest of the way.

And then late in the game, you were down 10 with a chance to go forward on fourth and goal.

You didn't get it.

And then the next thing you know, a 90-yard touchdown from Wayshawn Parker.

and KU loses that game.

Here's what Lance Hoppard wanted to say specifically about starting fast and some of the keys to getting going, because that'll be very important against K-State.

And I don't think we've seen KU start fast in any game this season.

We're five games into the season, and they haven't had a good start to any game, I don't think, quite yet.

Certainly on offense, and even on defense, you can make the argument maybe they haven't had started particularly great either.